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Commit 8625147c authored by James Houghton's avatar James Houghton Committed by Andrew Morton
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hugetlbfs: don't delete error page from pagecache

This change is very similar to the change that was made for shmem [1], and
it solves the same problem but for HugeTLBFS instead.

Currently, when poison is found in a HugeTLB page, the page is removed
from the page cache.  That means that attempting to map or read that
hugepage in the future will result in a new hugepage being allocated
instead of notifying the user that the page was poisoned.  As [1] states,
this is effectively memory corruption.

The fix is to leave the page in the page cache.  If the user attempts to
use a poisoned HugeTLB page with a syscall, the syscall will fail with
EIO, the same error code that shmem uses.  For attempts to map the page,
the thread will get a BUS_MCEERR_AR SIGBUS.

[1]: commit a7605426

 ("mm: shmem: don't truncate page if memory failure happens")

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221018200125.848471-1-jthoughton@google.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarNaoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>
Tested-by: default avatarNaoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarYang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
parent 120b1162
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